The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter ...

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Reaching the geothermal energy far beneath our feet will require digging further into the Earth's crust than ever before.

Hal Lindsey, a onetime Mississippi Delta tugboat captain who became a campus preacher and improbably vaulted to fame and ...

We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been habitable, with oceans of ...

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A new study may have figured out how life on Earth actually began, and it all has to do with ancient hot springs.

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Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our ...